How to Use perpetually in a Sentence

perpetually

adverb
  • This is a must-have for the person perpetually on the go.
    Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Lost in the sea of time and trends, Portia looks perpetually out of place.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Even now, Smith seems to live perpetually in the time of his trial.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Beach Ices sat just beside the huge, sprawling car park, with chalky dust swirling perpetually in the air.
    Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • Despite the need to perpetually dodge streams of infant pee, however, life is good for the guy in the scaly, green-and-gold suit.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • More help and more cash was perpetually just around the corner.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And while the Pistons are perpetually one of the NBA’s worst teams, they are known to be a physical defense.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Not just a life of the mind but a life in the mind, perpetually observing one’s own responses.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Earley, who has perpetually dry skin, likes how smooth and the lotion feels on her skin.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2024
  • And all of us that didn't have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Its world seems perpetually cast in green and purple shadows, but the details are less creepy than kooky.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The David Bowie progress narrative is about the thrill of perpetually changing shape.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • John Scott’s large office extended off the back of the house, and it was perpetually coated in a layer of books and papers.
    Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But there’s one more extreme measure that a lot of people with perpetually wet pits swear keeps them dry for months: Botox.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 27 June 2024
  • His arms and face were tanned from perpetually toiling in the sun, his fingers callused.
    Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • They’re rowed by shadowy figures who, like everyone else in the place, seem to be perpetually in need of something to eat.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Not that it was needed, since Kiss the Future would have the same power anytime in a world perpetually marked by armed conflict.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The luxury goods market is perpetually volatile, with year-over-year growth rates since 2000 all over the map, Danziger reports.
    Cmo, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Much of the paint has peeled off, and it’s coated in dark burn marks thanks to it perpetually being in close proximity to pyro.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
  • With this expansive canvas to fill, Orange can seem perpetually out of time and out of breath.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The church sits in an isolated part of a hilly expanse in the middle of nowhere, perpetually surrounded by a parade of gray clouds.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Her perpetually arched feet fall flat, and a sprinkling of cellulite surfaces on her thighs.
    Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • The patience of Alonso, the Bayer Leverkusen manager, says a lot about him, and just as much about a sport perpetually chasing the next big thing.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Armed with a hook for a hand and perpetually surrounded by a swarm of bees, the dark legend comes face-to-face with final girl Helen (Madsen) early in the movie.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • About growing up with the clicking cameras perpetually at the door.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Oakland Ballers, perpetually pushing the envelope since their inception, are giving their fans the shot to call the shots.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • My friend is perpetually overwhelmed and exasperated by the teen and reaches out all the time for advice and to vent.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • There is real joy in how this man lives perpetually in the moment, embracing the small, unassuming pleasures of the present.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Above all, if the journey takes one into an entirely unknown country…the hours spent in perpetually drinking in and absorbing this new world go beyond the natural and measurable intervals of time.
    Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Its military forces, and reservist combat troops in particular, are approaching exhaustion in the country’s longest and most perpetually undecided fight.
    Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024

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